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5 hours agoTodd Gray Reframes Black Diasporic History
Layered photo assemblages connect Black history and identity to European wealth built on enslaved labor through beauty, emotion, and nonlinear visual puzzles.
The Reuters photographer's shot of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving Aylsham police station in the back of his Range Rover is an image filled with shock, pain and horror. Noble's harsh, blinding flash paints Andrew in pink, red and white his skin is sickly, his eyes are hollow and red like a rat's. His hands are steepled as if in prayer, like he's pleading with a higher power for absolution.
Medieval underwear is supposed to be the ultimate non-subject: private, practical, and largely invisible. Yet medieval artists kept finding ways to show it-right at the moments when a body matters most. In manuscripts, panel paintings, and devotional imagery from Northern Europe, men's undergarments-usually called braies-appear when someone is working, humiliated, punished, exposed, or put on display for a moral lesson.